New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-12-05
NEW PUBLICATIONS
oDrp,TfYr HISTORY.

NARRATIVE AND critical w, MssaoH vo, ~.
-" ,WIrI A Fdlici bv justin "INeVs - I, -
I., - ru XXX. 5i6 Heuehtos. Nin'ih /"
AZ This noble work goes on we are "'''o "
NOV, i'm rrssc1 by It's importance 10 s'"'ie"'" "
Ar,r;cnr history. and ny the tlorouehi''ss WIN
.,, ,hc Ell tor and his contributors are running
.,, l-~cr prem SIS Of the prospectus. ~ inc S''
I'm. We cannot help smiling ut MI WIhsoF IN
:, ;n..-on that sis cooperative nHth'i VIII "rINc
=. 81 viduai historian o.t of employment HIS
r. al narrative is one o. the arts CT cohsuUcu"h'
49,, -, construction the combination iroIucts of u
number a. independent writers, how yer wei
t.t- ,,,~,ys and PERHAPS necessarily fait. Breaks
in the loc c.i connection Of parts seer to ne me-
oh,e /, vould BE- difficult, for example, TO form
q clear conception Of the course OIL ALL can
ond settlement from these substantial rub
hc.ton ia which the chapters arc gio"p'u 'po',
come lam different from that Of the historian
yro,rogs Of ev pts. In the fourth voinc W. INV,
u c,.,p.er from the competent hand OF MI. boFt"o'u
Ferrov- on Ncw-Ncthcrland and the o'hef Ou''"
settlement, in North America; hut for the history
~ >c,y-York under the English occui aIon VIC
must tprn back % the third volume. Hucn
Chronological diversions are common, ana TO one
va wants 10 READ the history rather than 10 STUDY
rcr. cplar parts Of it. they are not mute ahhoS
ING. However the chief use OF the work Is 'or
rcfarsnc. by serious Investigators and 10 such ie'
sous il is almost indispensable.
The present volume is devoted TO the Ftehch
tzp.orations and Settlements and those OF tne
Portuguese Dutch ana Sw dies. "Cortercal, VERA
,ano Gomez md Thevet" are treated by Mr George
inAter. Cartier and His Successors" by l.. r.
he Co.ia. "Cham 2lan' by Edmund F. S.alter'
Acadia" by Charles c. Smith, Discovery a,"ng
the Great Lakes" BY Edward ID. Nell, 'he
Icsu,,s Recollec,s and the Indians by dooh u
Shea. "Frontcnac and His Times by George Stew
art IT,, New-Nctheriand,' as we have sau ~
Ny F.rnow. and "New-Swedcn" by Gregory H.
Keen But, rs il the lrevi rs volumes, The naTra-
tive proper is often the least part Of the n,ter
iuclslel in the chapter which it leads The
crtica essav on the sources Of information ana the
cnalaeter OF the authorities is thorough ard com
r.c,c. and in this department the scholarship and
editorial ability Of Mr.. Winsor are conspicuous
Nor doc, the valuable supplementary matter stop
hsre Mr. Wnsgr contributes four exceedingly
rIcn and recondite papers on the cart"graphy o.
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. rroiuSely
illustrated with reproductions of rare maps In
materials Of this nature the Narrative anu
Ciriol' History" has from the first been exceed
ii |, ID. To tie chapter On "Discoyory along
t,e Great Lakes Mr.. Winsor adds exhaustive
pa,cr, on Joliet, Marquette and La Sale.
Father Louis llennepin." aud Baron La itoa-
tar and he compliments Mr. Shcas account OF
the Ind:an missions with hiblioEranGicaI article
"a TIE Jesuit Relations which is a marvel
Of industry and research In the whole field
covered " this pictuIesaue fourth volume it would
stem a, II nothing had been neglected.